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Fedora 12 released

Fedora 12 released

Posted Nov 25, 2009 13:19 UTC (Wed) by compte (guest, #60316)
Parent article: Fedora 12 released

When a Fedora version starts getting good its support life cycle ends and the remaining bugs are fixed in the next version. Like this you never get a fully functioning Fedora in one version. The reason for this is obviously the rate at which new releases come out. Imagine if Microsoft sent out new Windows versions every 6 months, people would say: "Are they nuts!". The new kernel versions isn't an excuse.


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Fedora 12 released

Posted Nov 26, 2009 13:06 UTC (Thu) by yeti-dn (guest, #46560) [Link]

Microsoft is not able to do Vista-like everything-changes release every 6 months. No one is -- and Fedora does not do anything of that kind.

For incremental changes, the shorter cycle, the better. Rolling releases (i.e. the exact opposite of what you suggest) might be actually the optimum for a Fedora-style distro.

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